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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Hallway Display - Social Studies

In an earlier post I noted that one of the two schools I work out have an inspection/assessment team coming in at the end of the month. I have been working with teachers and parent volunteers helping to get student work out in the hall and generally make our walls "pop" for visitors.

This is something I actually enjoy doing and I enjoyed it when I was a classroom teacher but I understand how time consuming it is. I spent many late nights at school putting together an awesome display only to replace it the next month. Time is definitely at a premium at this school and making wall displays is pretty low on most teachers lists (except the super crafty teachers and even they are coming in early, staying late, or working on the weekends to put something up).

This has got me thinking about displays that can be left up all year. I wrote about this earlier in regards to science wall displays. Now my focus has shifted to the social studies teachers. I thought it would be a good idea to put up a giant timeline in the wall and as events are studied students would add to the timeline (taking the students from the beginning of a time period to the end). I talked two of our Social Studies teachers into letting me put them up and they very generously loaned me some students to get them caught up to speed on their timelines.

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I started this blog many years ago as a classroom science teacher with the express purpose of sharing notebooking ideas with other educators. I have since moved into a technology coach position within our district so this site has morphed into a general teaching blog. Basically anything that I see or do in schools that I think is pretty cool gets highlighted here. If you are visiting to find notebooking information please look at my earlier posts. I have tried to label all my posts so information is easier to find...so, when in doubt look at the labels. As always, if you have any question please feel free to email me and I will do my best to help!